The game body: Toward a phenomenology of contemporary video gaming

Games and Culture

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 259-269

  Crick, Timothy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

avatar; digital imagery; Embodiment; intersubjectivity; phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955820898     PISSN: 15554120     EISSN: 15554139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1555412010364980     Document Type: Article

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